While it's nice in the sense that it prevents them from having to cut it off, you will have almost no other indication that the bag was opened unless they left the TSA notice inside... can't depend on that as an indication, especially if there was anything taken from within... why leave a TSA notice right?
After the Schapell Corby thing I bought a pack of small cable ties in about four colours. The theory is that anybody who opens my baggage will not have exactly the same ties to put back on. So far none of them have been cut.
I recently looked into buying a dc-dc converter to run my laptop in a plane. These things are pretty expensive and my guess is that I could build one for $20 AUD or so.
The problem is that airport security people are not going to believe that my bundle of components in a jiffy box which I soldered up myself is not a bomb, whereas the proper device from the shop at four times the price at least looks legit.
Then I wondered what it is going to be like in the near future where the flight control system probably runs windows CE or similar and I rock up to business class and start some software which I wrote myself.
Software may be a terrorist weapon soon. Will people who roll their own be viewed with suspicion?
Which takes me back to a trip to Adelaide last year with my family. Coming back I put my laptop in the checked in baggage (inside a suitcase), probably not a good idea. I carry it on these days. Before boarding an announcement came on that they had to change a wheel or something. This is Adelaide and you can see the plane right outside the windows and I didn't see any wheel changing going on.
To cut a long story short when I tried to boot up mandrake at home in Melbourne that laptop was flat as a 20 year old leaky dry cell. No way would it show any lights without a power supply.
Now the airlines tell you not to run your laptop while landing and taking off. Did this laptop run for three hours in the terminal + plane + terminal + my place because some security guy didn't know how to shut down linux?
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I can tell you that the process of wiping an old disk (especially if it is less than 10GB) is sometimes just not worth it.
True, but if I sold one of my systems I would at least rm -rf / or install another OS. I know that the files can be recovered after that but not by anybody who is likely to be interested in my crap.
I think that sendmail.cf is the worst written configuration file and a good SysAdmin has edited the SECOND part of it almost once, but never twice because the second time he removed sendmail and installed something better.
I used to run a stock linux configuration on my co-lo. After a while I realised that I had an open mail relay running. I bought a book called "sendmail for linux" and the (unstated but very clear) conclusion from the book was to run something other than sendmail.
Now we will descend into a flamewar of qmail vs. courier vs. whateverMTAyouuse.
Well, if you really want to...
I run my two web servers on netbsd. I have an install script which sets it up the way I like. This script removes sendmail when it installs netqmail.
Its no real problem for me, just two lines of ksh. But mail software doesn't really belong in the base system. The software you want is just a pkg_add away (not qmail unfortunately).
I think this is a good move. NetBSD will be better for it. And I do think DJB needs to move into at least the 1990's where it comes to software distribution.
JS synthesis is a hack anyway. I've seen the code produced by such technologies, and it's crap. You trust your application's well being to the compiler authors with the hope they update it when it breaks in the latest and greatest browser out there.
Which makes me wonder why google released the toolkit, given that it could help their competitors.
Google are always on the lookout for sources of meta information about sites they search. Is it possible that the toolkit snaffles information from the compilation environment and builds it into the generated code? Only to "server you better" of course.
why the BSD license usually is MORE efficient for getting changes back
As far as I am aware, the BSD license was not designed with this goal in mind. The GPL was designed with the goal of keeping the source code available to the developer community.
Whether this goal is achieved is debatable, but I think the GPL (or licenses similar to it) deliver the best chance of keeping systems open as we move into a heavily DRM'd world.
It seems absolutey crazy to encourage the use of nuclear fission in an atmosphere. There are to many things that can go wrong not to mention that there is no proven safe way as of yet to deal with the waste permanently.
There is a lot of radioactive material in brown coal. A power station is one of the best ways to distribute it in the atnosphere.
Get this process down to something small enough to quietly function in a barn and you could build a weapon inside the borders of your target. A gold mine or somesuch would be all you need for cover.
Your idea is crazy, but is it crazy enough to be...oh shit.
I predict that if hydrogen can be extracted from regolith close to the surface, then a lot of that oxygen will be burnt down to make water. During the apollo missions oxygen had to be carried but more often than not water for cooling was the limiting factor for stays on the surface.
Its nice to see that people are working directly on this, even if it will be at least 15 years before anybody walks on the moon again.
I today filter with a bayesian filter, and only with a bayesian filter
I use bogofilter and it works very well once a database has been built up. The problem I have at the moment is that somebody is sending spam with one of my domains in the From: field.
If I am lucky it will be a former client of mine who uses notoriously rooted windows boxes in their office. Eventually they will stop working and my problems will be solved. Until then I have to deal with the bounces.
I'm sure the Media project seriously doesn't want to do tech support for 100,000 doners.
Then they should have used Ubuntu. I am sure Mark Shuttleworth would be more than happy to have 100000 potential customers for Canonical's support services.
you have to win their hearts. This isn't done by setting up no power puppet governments and using them only as extra bodies for fighting. It requires making Iraq a better place to live.
The problem is that the current generation knows that to survive at all you have to beg, borrow, steal and kill for any advantage you can get. Its not the same as safe places like (say) Jordan.
This strategy would work, but only on generations not yet born. None of the people currently alive will believe you when you say "I'm from the Government and I'm here to help you". They all know its bullshit.
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After the Schapell Corby thing I bought a pack of small cable ties in about four colours. The theory is that anybody who opens my baggage will not have exactly the same ties to put back on. So far none of them have been cut.
Thanks but I plan to let the servers cool down for a few days before I hit them.
I recently looked into buying a dc-dc converter to run my laptop in a plane. These things are pretty expensive and my guess is that I could build one for $20 AUD or so.
The problem is that airport security people are not going to believe that my bundle of components in a jiffy box which I soldered up myself is not a bomb, whereas the proper device from the shop at four times the price at least looks legit.
Then I wondered what it is going to be like in the near future where the flight control system probably runs windows CE or similar and I rock up to business class and start some software which I wrote myself.
Software may be a terrorist weapon soon. Will people who roll their own be viewed with suspicion?
Which takes me back to a trip to Adelaide last year with my family. Coming back I put my laptop in the checked in baggage (inside a suitcase), probably not a good idea. I carry it on these days. Before boarding an announcement came on that they had to change a wheel or something. This is Adelaide and you can see the plane right outside the windows and I didn't see any wheel changing going on.
To cut a long story short when I tried to boot up mandrake at home in Melbourne that laptop was flat as a 20 year old leaky dry cell. No way would it show any lights without a power supply.
Now the airlines tell you not to run your laptop while landing and taking off. Did this laptop run for three hours in the terminal + plane + terminal + my place because some security guy didn't know how to shut down linux?
True, but if I sold one of my systems I would at least rm -rf / or install another OS. I know that the files can be recovered after that but not by anybody who is likely to be interested in my crap.
No. I didn't know it was there. I might give it a go. I wonder if it has the netqmail patches in it.
I used to run a stock linux configuration on my co-lo. After a while I realised that I had an open mail relay running. I bought a book called "sendmail for linux" and the (unstated but very clear) conclusion from the book was to run something other than sendmail.
Right now it goes to sendmail. I assume that there will be a 3.1 release soon so that will be the next without sendmail.
The mail transport seems to be configured in /etc/mailer.conf
Maybe I should look at that editing that file rather than using the sendmail program which comes with qmail.
Well, if you really want to...
I run my two web servers on netbsd. I have an install script which sets it up the way I like. This script removes sendmail when it installs netqmail.
Its no real problem for me, just two lines of ksh. But mail software doesn't really belong in the base system. The software you want is just a pkg_add away (not qmail unfortunately).
I think this is a good move. NetBSD will be better for it. And I do think DJB needs to move into at least the 1990's where it comes to software distribution.
Which makes me wonder why google released the toolkit, given that it could help their competitors.
Google are always on the lookout for sources of meta information about sites they search. Is it possible that the toolkit snaffles information from the compilation environment and builds it into the generated code? Only to "server you better" of course.
NT? Plan9? BeOS? VMS?
You don't seem to like Linux.
No sorry. I am smithm@ or smithmr@. I was once a member of the Michael Smith webring, though :)
As far as I am aware, the BSD license was not designed with this goal in mind. The GPL was designed with the goal of keeping the source code available to the developer community.
Whether this goal is achieved is debatable, but I think the GPL (or licenses similar to it) deliver the best chance of keeping systems open as we move into a heavily DRM'd world.
Unless they start with one of those orbital mirrors to focus light on ground based solar thermal generators.
There is a lot of radioactive material in brown coal. A power station is one of the best ways to distribute it in the atnosphere.
Your idea is crazy, but is it crazy enough to be...oh shit.
No Kidding! From TFA:
Dr Goldsworthy said that, due to regulation, "we report to the Government regularly".Dr Goldsworthy is a regular reporter of the highest degree. OTH I wonder what Iran would pay for his services right now?
Nobody is talking about terraforming the moon, except Stephen Baxter.
Lunar exploration so far has made extensive use of Containment Structures.
How about laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation)
But this gas is rocket exhaust. The hypergolic fuels used on the apollo LM are highly toxic both before and after being burnt in the engine.
Most of that gas will have gone by now, anyway. Either by escaping into space or freezing out in cold traps.
I predict that if hydrogen can be extracted from regolith close to the surface, then a lot of that oxygen will be burnt down to make water. During the apollo missions oxygen had to be carried but more often than not water for cooling was the limiting factor for stays on the surface.
Its nice to see that people are working directly on this, even if it will be at least 15 years before anybody walks on the moon again.
I use bogofilter and it works very well once a database has been built up. The problem I have at the moment is that somebody is sending spam with one of my domains in the From: field.
If I am lucky it will be a former client of mine who uses notoriously rooted windows boxes in their office. Eventually they will stop working and my problems will be solved. Until then I have to deal with the bounces.
Then they should have used Ubuntu. I am sure Mark Shuttleworth would be more than happy to have 100000 potential customers for Canonical's support services.
Cell phones use DRM to lock you into a network while you are on contract.
I expected an anti CVS winge from some SVN guy.
The problem is that the current generation knows that to survive at all you have to beg, borrow, steal and kill for any advantage you can get. Its not the same as safe places like (say) Jordan.
This strategy would work, but only on generations not yet born. None of the people currently alive will believe you when you say "I'm from the Government and I'm here to help you". They all know its bullshit.